The Service Doctors and Post Graduates Association, whose members were on their sixth day of a relay fast on Tuesday, announced that all activities, including conduct of classes, elective cases under the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme, health camps and VIP convoy duty, in all medical colleges and hospitals, would be suspended on Wednesday.
The members of the association will participate in a day-long token total boycott of all patient care services except emergency, CeMONC, trauma and casualty care in institutions under the directorates of public health and medical services on Thursday. Doctors will not sign the attendance.
The members from all directorates will go on mass casual leave on May 5 and 6 and a rally would be held in the respective districts. On May 8, the members will observe a total boycott in all institutions under all directorates, excluding emergency care, the association said.
The Doctors Association for Social Equality, which has been protesting against the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), held a two-hour demonstration outside the Chennai Collectorate in which leaders of Communist parties participated. Its demands include that the State should retain all seats in MBBS/BDS for its residents.
Separate paper
Meanwhile, former health minister and Member of Legislative Assembly S. Semmalai has suggested that since it appeared that NEET was inevitable, the State government should demand that it should have a separate question paper for the exam based on the State Board syllabus.
